par·a·lyseBritish EnglishBrE, paralyze American English /ˈpærəlaɪz/ verb [transitiveT]
1MIif something paralyses you, it makes you lose the ability to move part or all of your body, or to feel it 使瘫痪;使麻痹
Her legs were partly paralysed in the crash.
在撞车事故中她的双腿部分瘫痪。
2STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto make something unable to operate normally 使不能正常运作,使陷入瘫痪
Fear of unemployment is paralysing the economy.
对失业的恐惧使经济陷于瘫痪。
Motor traffic was paralysed in much of the city.
该城市大部分地区的汽车交通陷于停顿。
Examples from the Corpus
paralyse• Boris is mentally paralysed by the situation, however.• He's twice sufferedstrokes and is paralysed down one side of his body.• Yet in the past week or two it has sometimes had a paralysingeffect.• And then Frye began to scream, the sound of it paralysing everyone with fright again.• Then they jump on to their prey, paralyse it and feed on it.• Legs, eighty percent gone, left arm fifty percent paralysed, right arm, pretty well useless.• There are botulisminjectionsavailable now to paralyse the frowning lines and the smiling ones too.• Strikeaction has paralysed the region's public transport system.• He was paralysed with the pain of the wound which pulsed in time to his heartbeat.